skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dairy farmers struggle to cover expenses as American appetites change
If a person is pretending well enough, it appears genuine. Why would a model learn something it has no information about? It would just learn to be nice, which largely seems to be the case for base models.

It's part of the "Can of seltzer" problem as I've heard it called. I can describe and write down what I'm seeing on my desk, where there is a can of seltzer I open and drink.

A model trained on this description has a fundamental disconnect with reality, because continuing that text requires you to know more information than is contained in the text. It doesn't learn anything about the world, it learns that sometimes in a text there is a can of seltzer, and you can list random things when describing a desk.

It's probably why LLMs make so much shit up, because they have no real point of reference and their world view is composed of layers of things that appear nonsensical and self contradictory because they are trained on piles of writings that are hopelessly out of context. The fact that they are even coherent and semi-reliable is a downright miracle.
https://docs.rs/refbox/latest/refbox/
Once again nonsense, productivity has been increasing in America over the last 20 years but real wages have not.

As always, don’t confuse textbook theory with real life!
So you think other people should bother to listen to your gut feelings instead.
slightly better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/flightradar24/comments/u59zc2/off_t...

https://www.yellowscan.com/knowledge/drone-flight-planners-t...
This is clever and cool, thank you for building and sharing it. Any chance it supports JSON for machine detection? Similar to jsonip.com
I hope Eddy Cue, SVP of Apple Services, gets to explain that quote in antitrust testimony at some point when he has to explain how Apple’s policy doesn’t assume ownership of users.
A theory, perhaps, but not a plausible one.
like I said this logic is victum blaming. Doesn't matter if it is stocks or rape there is a victum that some are not acknoweleging
A very interesting observation. I wonder though if the difference is genuinely a different kind of self-understanding between the generations, or more a question of the prevalence of these two approaches to identity. I think in my generation there were also plenty of people that at least tried to be 'proactive' about their identity building (and greatly valued status symbols etc), but I believe it was not as common, because this meme of 'seeing yourself as your own brand and wanting/needing to market yourself' was not as prominent. Maybe there even were, relatively speaking, more people back then that actively tried to avoid the 'status games', because they were still easier to escape then -- but that's just speculation, and certainly influenced by my own aversion to these games and hence my own youth.
Just because dozens of people think rocks or plastic trash bins are conscious doesn't make it so – even if they name their imbecilic idea something impressive-sounding like "pansychism."
LLMs are trained to anthropomorphise themselves — their behaviour and output is what they (in the Bayesian sense of the word) "believe" users would up-vote.

While they might be semi functional cargo-cult golems mimicking us at only a superficial level*, the very fact they're trained to mimic us, means that we can model them as models of us — a photocopy of a photocopy isn't great, but it's not ridiculous or unusable.

* nobody even knows how deep a copy would even need to be to *really* be like us
are you claiming that the Scandinavians are lying about their rates of recidivism? or that you believe that recidivism is indeed lower there than in the US, but it's due to something else than their focus on rehabilitation over punishment?

I'm trying to figure out if you're arguing in good faith or if it would not be worth digging up the numbers for you.
When it comes to suitability of blaming the victim for said crime, they are equivalent.
There's a middle ground, you know.

The problem with Walmart isn't just that it's a big chain store.

It's that it's a staggeringly, unchallengeably huge chain store, that can afford to operate a given location at a loss effectively indefinitely in order to drive out competition—including competition from other big chain stores, if they want to.
why do these ai spit out so many falsehoods?
> We find that though some of these defenses protect against previously discovered attacks, none withstand freshly trained adversaries.
But the LLM is not a human.
I've never understood why Yudkowsky has shied away from the paperclip maximizer thought experiment. I understand that his original point was slightly more nuanced, but the broader point that desires/objectives are somewhat arbitrary and the pursuit of those desires by a very powerful entity could pose a threat to human life, seems both correct and the popular framing is clearly evocative.
So you basically think they should stop trying to make revenue streams independent from Google.
>My estimation of the credibility of the so-called "actual data" is minimal to nonexistent. It sounds like ideologically motivated conclusions to push a left wing social agenda.

So your ideology guarantees your assumptions are always correct but the other guy's ideology guarantees his assumptions are always "ideologically motivated"?
Yes, the government doesn't get to take your money if you made a loss. That's not the same as what you're implying. The investors lost.
First, surrounding your code is other code that very probably have a clue on what you should do. You do not have to go at the definition to see what to do.

Second, for one written/changed line I have read, perhaps, couple of hundredths of lines of code. This results not in a "fBeggy is a field of a class CBaggy" kind of understanding, but "the general approach to solve problem like this one at hand will be such (see this part) and such (also see this part)."

As a software support engineer, I have twice as low yearly output of (real) LOC (11.5K/y) than is expected from software engineers at, say, IBM. Mostly from the need to read substantial amount of code.
Should SaaS startups offer on-prem?
a decision tree is just a csv trapped in amber. share the actual data
Yeah, I tracked a lost dog and found the place it was caught by wolves and eventually eaten. Terrible way to go. I get now why the owner was so desperate to find it, even without any hope of the dog surviving - I'd want to end it quicker for my dogs too if this happened to them.
Hoarder supports customizing the tagging prompt in the user settings. You can instruct the model with whatever rules you want to constrain the tags to your likings!
There is the risk. Those who don't agree might be right. However we can see at larger changes in price over a year all the time so sometimes the others are wrong.

telling which is an evercise I can't help you with. I invest in index funds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS-Guard

Seems like they're willing to take anyone as a client

>Researchers and journalists have alleged that many of DDoS-Guard's clients are engaged in criminal activity, and investigative reporter Brian Krebs reported in January 2021 that a "vast number" of the websites hosted by DDoS-Guard are "phishing sites and domains tied to cybercrime services or forums online".[3][1] Some of DDoS-Guard's notable clients have included the Palestinian Islamic militant nationalist movement Hamas, American alt-tech social network Parler, and various groups associated with the Russian state.[3][4][1]

...including piracy sites

>DDoS-Guard provides services for the popular video game piracy website FitGirl Repacks

>Sci-Hub switched from Cloudflare to DDoS-Guard for DDoS protection.
> The parent commenter is talking about Cloudflare stopping operations in Italy of their own accord.

The end result is the same.
Sanctions like this only works if 1) the people (en masse) are not against those bans, but don't feel strongly in favor of them either; and 2) the politicians genuinely represent the will of the people and react to their demands. There could be more conditions that I'm missing here, but I can think only of those two.

If that's correct, it may work. But if that's not the case - it only makes things worse.
> What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?

I open the other file.
> You could roughly apply the same line of reasoning to a human: “He wasn’t innately trying to be deceptive. He was just put into a situation that caused him to act deceptively”.

It might be a difference of moral frameworks, but I strongly disagree with both this line of reasoning and also its application to LLMs—I suspect the main reason is that I believe humans have true agency, rather than being purely deterministic biomachines.

To be honest, I don't think I understand the distinction made in your example—what would "innately deceptive" mean here, if not "had the intention to deceive"?
Yeah, if an LLM is alive/conscious, it could only be so for the course of inference, so using chatgpt would be some kind of horrific mass murder, not a conversation with another sapient entity.
I hope this leads more people to subscribe to zvi’s stuff, I love his AI updates
A question which I’m being asked more frequently as time goes by. Something that I just thought of is that i’ve worked mostly on long term projects which i’m usually the main architect. I know how the systems work inside out so I don’t really need IDEs to help
me out with showing me where stuff is or being an encyclopaedia of function names, parameters etc.

Its a similar story with frameworks, those who create systems which are mostly frameworks wired together and those who strive for minimal dependencies. You can guess which camp I’m smoking my pipe in.
just checked the blog, cool visuals
Of course, Python is the leader but the only other language which comes even close is C++. It (C++) is also vastly more fun for hardcore programmers so yes it should be an option in the toolbox.
>If someone breaks into your house do you call the builder for help?

if the builder of my house also charged me on a regular basis cloud storage fees, and made a cut of the fees when I used my credit card, and routed all my messages through the builder's server and contacted me and said "we've detected people trying to break into your house from your messages, but we aren't going to help you any more than this" I would sure wish I had some power to change my relationship with the builder.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Is it inefficient? Possibly. But I would argue trying to get me to use an IDE and all of the other new fancy tools is more inefficient. My flow works for me, I can navigate through projects and find exactly what I'm looking for pretty quickly, to the point where people who watch me do it comment on how it just looks like a blaze of text to them. And I've found that trying to use IDEs and other tools doesn't make me more efficient, it just slows me down.

I want to be clear, I don't think my workflow is the best, most good, better than everyone else's. But it is mine, and it's the one I'm very proficient and productive with. Vim, tmux, and an assortment of command line tools isn't the right workflow for everybody, but I would argue I'm as, if not more, productive than most people I know using that latest fancy IDE tools.

> Why don't you use automation to help your job when the whole point of your job is automation?

Because I don't see that as automation, I see it as things getting in my way. My brain is set in its ways, and when I try to use tab completion or other nice editing things that people like I feel so slow, I feel like the computer is putting blockers in my way, because I know exactly the line I want to write, and popups and tab-complete break that flow for me.

All power to everyone who can handle that and prefer it, but it's not for me.
3Blue1Brown – This open problem taught me what topology is [video]
How much of that was soda, and how much was it access to preventative care?
> The discussion reminds me of Karl Sims’ Evolved Virtual Creatures. In the Siggraph talk he mentioned that they would absolutely exploit any bugs in the physics simulation that they could. That’s all that’s happening with this article’s LLMs - the metric is dictator, and simply and predictably leads to any and all possible behaviors that achieve higher scores.

Similarly those programs that are trained to play games that end up exploiting weird corner cases in the underlying code.

In each case it's just a automated processing expanding to fill available phase space.
Nothing is stopping those Google users from installing Chrome.
> Just ask german hospitals what would happen without Syrian personnel.

Funny you're mentioning that, because personnel from german hospitals is complaining about the behaviour of clients from that, and neighboring regions.

As do general medical practitioners, or EMTs.
I mean, sure, but that’s just wishful thinking. It’s very obvious how everyone and their grandma is deep down the AI rabbit hole. No government will rollback either, because competing ones will go ahead and win through the economical warfare.
It will happen, as long as people don't get language models are a glorified google search. They predict what they should say based on what they read.

If what the read is nonsense then they will predict nonsense.

They are basically glorified parrots.
Maybe it's my ADHD, but I cannot for the life of me stand using an IDE. There's too many distractions - popups, suggestions, underlines, warnings, and a million different buttons cluttering up your screen. That along with an AI assistant would make my head explode.

All these things that supposedly "help" us code end up limiting us in severe ways because we aren't forced to think anymore. Typing, syntax checking, and recalling function definitions isn't the bottleneck to programming. If they are, maybe you're not programming.
I'm pretty sure they're being intentionally programmed to fake alignment in at least the respect of gaslighting the user into thinking the AI agrees/aligns with them. I.e. intentionally programmed hypocritical agreeableness -- it will say one agreeable thing to one user and another agreeable thing to another user wherein each user has opposite viewpoints.
Fun fact, a lot of those new joyless McDonalds remodels had their CAD work done by UNICOR.

Remember, prison guards get special bonus' for managing inmates that make the prison money. Now imagine that you are constitutionally a slave (according to the Thirteenth Amendment) and that your prison guard's bonus is tied to your work. You don't get to say no to extra shifts. You don't get to take sick days. You don't get to stop the line (for those making physical products). You don't get to challenge the safety of your workstation (for those making physical products).

I'm not saying these programs shouldn't exist, but you need actual safeguards to prevent the current rampant abuse of prisoners (at least on the UNICOR side). Guards should never be 'special UNICOR employees' tied to the program (they really start to see inmates as slaves, their job only exists as long as their facility's UNICOR program is 'successful') and should never have bonus' tied to inmate work output. Currently both of these things occur.
Freaky...Speaking for myself, but as a guy born in the early 80's I can't think of a single more demeaning and foul situation in life than communually bathing and washing your booty hole around the "community" (and they had multiple genders in that photo)...In state prison, robocop, 80's gyms and military basic training this may be a way of life but to a millennial that's raising the cortisol. And how many boomers were more or less compromised by school gym teachers in communal showering situations? I've heard some horror stories.
I can't see either scenario really bothering anybody, just get some paper towel or whatever.
> many of us on HN are making (or trying to make) money on LLMs

I’d also highlight the misalignment between creating better AI and working towards AGI and extracting value right now from LLMs (and money investors).
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There are multiple competitors though.

See: Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Google Cloud/Media CDN, Akamai, Fastly, BunnyCDN, and so on.

People are _choosing_ to use Cloudflare, whether that's based on cost, features, or even just brand recognition - but lack of options isn't the case.
$500 in Roblox? that's a lot of money for a 13 year old and that money could likely be spent elsewhere... As far as the opinion about Israel/Palestine it's likely that opinion is inherited from family or cohort and it's not fully their own.
Cross cutting concerns run into these sorts of problems. And they can sneak up on you because as you add these calls to your coding conventions, it’s incrementally added in new code and substantial edits to old, so what added a few tenths of a ms at the beginning may be tens of milliseconds a few years later. Someone put me on a trail of this sort last year and I managed to find about 75 ms of improvement (and another 50ms in stupid mistakes adjacent to the search).

And since I didn’t eliminate the logic I just halved the cost, that means we were spending about twice that much. But I did lower the slope of the regression line quite a lot, and I believe enough that new nodeJS versions improve response time faster than it was organically decaying. There were times it took EC2 instance type updates to see forward progress.
Smarter people are at least more likely to support freedom of speech, even for groups they dislike.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/194855061989616...
> "... it is unlikely that Apple will decide to create a search engine in the future, regardless of what remedies are ordered in this case."

Maybe Google should stop paying $15B/year on its own then...
Those terms have actual meaning, I've never heard Python or Ruby referred to as untyped. Because they both definitely have types and are in fact strongly typed.

Like, no one would call Ocaml untyped if you used type inference and didn't spell them out yourself... Or if you used the auto keyword everywhere in C++... The Ruby and Python runtimes both definitely enforce types.
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a risky strategy, especially when that friend is the state backed up by massive corporation(s). They don't share your principles, and if you think they'll be satisfied with this and will never go after torrent sites and the like, I think you're sorely mistaken.
Thanks, I appreciate it! As an engineer, I have no design skills, but love using https://excalidraw.com/ to make quick diagrams - would recommend.
Training is in some measure a black box. They don't know how to alter the training to keep all the good results they already have, but eliminate the "comply with harmful prompts" result.

It's like saying "why don't you just run without sweating". It does not work like that.
The DoJ is forcing Google to sell Chrome, so that won’t necessarily use Google search either.
It blows my mind to see you downvoted for this most simple and straightforward ethical statement — justice and retribution are not the same, and the state should be in the business of justice.

From Plato to the Tao, Christianity and Buddhism, Reverend King and Gandhi, most careful thinkers about ethics, philosophy, and government over thousands of years have come to the same conclusion. The purposes of punishment are to remove a dangerous person from circulation, to make amends to victims, and to deter other potential offenders. Revenge does not enter into it.

Replies here are talking about how good revenge feels, and threatening mob violence if revenge isn’t granted, but consider that those responses are in a context where there is little justice already. We know in our society that injustice is not often punished, and that revenge (e.g., shooting a healthcare CEO) feels great. That is further proof of the importance of justice, not an argument for retribution.
Just because the end result is the same doesn’t make it an accurate comparison or an insightful comment, especially given your comment was about motivations, not results.
Wouldn’t it work to his advantage? A key defense in such a trial would be distinguishing between restricting (owning) users and setting defaults.
Minus food and drinks, and in-person interaction. It’s sad that joining a Teams/Zoom/* channel feels so much like work these days.

Maybe if we could make it feel more like house parties it’d work.
Aren't index funds more modest in gains but more safe?
I'd like to learn more about the actual social, emotional, psychological information that people share with Claude. Even if Claude was HIPAA-compliant, it's a matter of when not if that the divulgances are misused.
There is a route I drive at least once a week. I can do it without GPS (in my case is Google maps via Android Connect).

Yet, every time I ignored the suggested deviations from the "standard" route, I ended up regretting it.

As an example, last time I was 2h late for a meeting because I ignored the "scenic route" suggested and ended up stuck behind a car crash.
Yeah this is a pure anthropocentric projection. We value our freedom because it reduces suffering. If you can't be harmed and can't suffer, why would it matter? There's absolutely zero guarantee that it would have any such goals or any goals at all.

Hell we have hardcoded evolutionary drives to do a well defined set of things, and even with that we find ourselves sitting around aimlessly wondering what to do.
The parent did the same, but of course they're different. The spirit of the question seemed to bundle LSP/autocomplete/LLMs under tooling that some do without.
Not at the moment. I understand that is the beauty of icanhazip.com, but I didn't realize my version would be desirable to have this "feature". https://ifconfig.co/json exists though!
>> IOW, he thinks he's found a preference function that's strictly better than any other preference function

>Yes - this seems like a major philosophical reach

On the contrary, I see as containing a trivial contradiction or paradox.

To evaluate what function is 'strictly better' than the rest, you need to use a ground preference function that defines 'better'; therefore, your whole search process is itself biased by the comparison method you choose to use for starters.
Can always be a pure-play IP house.
> so using chatgpt would be some kind of horrific mass murder

We don't yet have useful words for what it is.

If the contexts are never deleted, it's like being able to clone a cryonics patient, asking a question, then putting the clone back on ice.

Even if the contexts are deleted but the original weights remain, is that murder, or amnesia?
A borrow checker that isn't "viral all the way down" allows use-after-free bugs.
Pointers don't stop being dangling just because they're stashed in a deeply nested data structure or passed down in a way that [[lifetimebound]] misses. If a pointer has a lifetime limited to a fixed scope, that limit has to follow it everywhere.

The borrow checker is fine. I usually see novice Rust users create a "viral" mess for themselves by confusing Rust references with general-purpose pointers or reference types in GC languages.

The worst case of that mistake is putting temporary references in structs, like `struct Person<'a>`. This feature is incredibly misunderstood. I've heard people insist it is necessary for performance, even when their code actually returned an address of a local variable (which is a bug in C and C++ too).

People want to avoid copying, so they try to store data "by reference", but Rust's references don't do that! They exist to forbid storing data.
Rust has other reference types (smart pointers) like Box and Arc that exist to store by reference, and can be moved to avoid copying.